Stetson student wins CNN contest: He'll help cover royal wedding

Ladies everywhere would probably nominate Jason Sauter for the Boyfriend of the Week award – or better.

Sauter, 24, whose longtime sweetheart is a huge fan of British royalty, recently entered a contest for CNN, which was looking for someone to help cover the royal wedding later this month.

Sauter, himself, doesn't care much about Prince William and Kate Middleton's nuptials or all the chatter about dresses, rings and honeymoons. Still, he made a video urging CNN to pick him in hopes of taking his girlfriend of six years to England to witness the history-making event.

This week, he learned he won. He'll fly to London to join CNN's high-profile hosts, who include Piers Morgan and Anderson Cooper. And the news agency is covering all of the young couple's travel expenses.

"She would make comments every day like, 'Jason, I just know I'm meant to be over there,' " said Sauter, a graduate student at Stetson University who works at Epcot as a guest-service manager.

"I just came across it [the contest] and I thought: 'What a deal. I can make her dream come true and I love news.'"

In Sauter's light-hearted video, which Vidarte helped create, he argues that CNN should let him cover the wedding from a guy's perspective — a guy whose girlfriend is infatuated with the idea of becoming a princess.

A CNN official said he was chosen because his entry was "witty and clever." You can watch it here.

Sauter isn't sure exactly where he'll be situated on the wedding day, April 29. But he expects to be making videos and filing reports to CNN iReport — an online compilation of news items that regular folks around the world submit via videos, audio clips and photos.

In the coming days, he'll also be making guest appearances on TV programs such as American Morning and Morning Express with Robin Meade.

Vidarte's friends tell her how lucky she is.

"They're like: 'Oh, my gosh. He is great,'" said Vidarte, a transportation manager at Disney's Hollywood Studios and the Animal Kingdom, which is where the two met as college interns in 2005.